Contributing to weekly meetings and getting involved in assigned tasks

Contributors always have a voice and are welcome to provide thoughts and insights and in any technical discussion within the project as well as assist in direct use/testing of the project artifacts.

Committer

A Committer is a contributor that has the authority, and responsibility to submit changes to the ONAP software repository.

Typical characteristics of a Committer are:

Deep expertise in the code base over which they are committers

Time dedicated to reviewing code contributions made by other contributors

Knowledge and understanding of the overall development activities occurring within the project - this is important so that the review of new code is taken in the context of the overall development for the project.

Knowledge and understanding of other, interdependent projects within ONAP and how contributions to this project affect work being done elsewhere by others.

The Committers on a project will review each code contribution made by the Contributors, and other Committers on the project. Often, a Committer will need to enter into a dialog with a Contributor to have them make changes to the contribution to better fit the functional, structural makeup or style of the existing codebase. It is preferable to have at least 2 Committers show approval (with a +1) for a contribution before it is accepted into the repository. It is also ideally best practice to never have a Committer review and/or approve their own contribution into the repository except.

Project Technical Lead (PTL)

The PTL is a committer who is the one point of contact responsible for representing the project to the rest of the ONAP community.

For projects that become part of any given release, the PTL is responsible for reporting milestone status and release readiness to the rest of the community. The PTL for each project is elected by the other committers within the project. Please note that it is very common for individuals to be a committer on one project, and an contributor on another. However, there is nothing stopping an individual from being a committer on multiple projects. Also, it is rare, but not unheard of, that an individual can be a PTL on more than one project.

Committer Promotion Prerequisites

ONAP contributors seeking promotion to committer status should demonstrate the following abilities and behaviors before being considered for promotion. Ideally the individual has been participating in the community and several projects including the one they are seeking promotion to. Contributors can perform 95% of the duties of a formal committer including the following which would be expected from both contributors and committers.

Gerrit involvment - putting up reviews of their own, reviewing other reviews of contributors/committers - you can add yourself as a reviewer as well.

Ability to build, deploy and run your own project in the context of a larger ONAP deploy

Ability to build and debug your own project in an IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ

Proactive - do not wait to be part of a epic/story/task or wait to be part of a review, or wait to bring forward build/design issues, or wait to bring new capabilities to the project and any other members of ONAP pushing or pulling from your component

Committers should only merge proposed changes from contributors after at least 2 (+1) reviews.

Committers should remove themselves from a review under the following circumstances:

Committer has been added as a reviewer to a change they do not feel comfortable reviewing

Committer anticipates a lack of time to review within 1 week

Committers who remove themselves should leave a short comment in the change explaining to the owner the reason for removal

This allows owners opportunity to find others willing to review (or to make changes to significantly simplify or further document change)

Committers should aim to review all pending changes which have passed verify, have no merge conflicts or (-1) or (-2) reviews in a timely manner.

Committers are welcome to ignore pending changes which do not pass verify, have merge conflicts or have been reviewed (-1) or (-2).

Committers should occasionally review the list of all old changes (To be defined). Owners of old changes should be contacted to ascertain if the change can be abandoned. If change owners do not respond or respond that the change has been abandoned, it should be abandoned.

2 Comments

another best practice should be that from the 2 committers that review the work, at least 1 will come from a different company that raised the patch

I think we should add for a committer - The Committers will be the decision makers on all matters for a project including design, code, patches, and releases for a project (taken from https://fd.io/governance)

I think we should add for a PTL - Project Technical Leaders have a term of one year but may be removed at any time by majority vote of the project’s committers. (taken from https://fd.io/governance)

As a minor aside - some critical ONAP spanning changes are still being committed/merged by the same single developer. Perhaps we should add a pre-commit check in git that flags committer == merger and/or put a wait state in that case so we have time to flag the proposed commit and review it before the merge. Just stating this so that projects that adhere-to/demonstrate the standard are not at a disadvantage.